WITH GORILLA GONE,

WILL THERE

BE HOPE

FOR MAN?

WITH MAN GONE,

WILL THERE BE HOPE

FOR GORILLA?

Thursday's

5 selected songs that must, if they don't already, grace your collection. [vol.01]
[this is something new that I am starting. every thursday evening i will prepare you for the weekend by suggesting 5 songs i feel are essential for your personal music library.]

the list is as fallows:

1. Dilate_ani difranco
2. Wondering_ben folds
3. Neigborhood #3_the arcade fire
4. We might as well be strangers_keane
5. Hands down_dashboard confessional

*if you have trouble obtaining one or more of these glorious musical endevours, drop me a line as i may be able to help

emotions

last night my little brother and I took a last minute trip to Manhattan to finalize my move. Originally I had until Aug. 1 to get completely moved out of my apartment, a new development occurs, tenants want to move in early. Now we have to be out by July 17, however, earning us a little extra cash for the effort.

After some genuinely hard work from around 8.30pm-1.00am, the apartment was looking good. Good, that is in the destroyed, beer stained, treeted like a playground look. It was at this point that I realized something...

It is really over. I hate to get all sentimental about leaving college because all I talked about during my final sememster was how ready I was to get out and get a job and a place etc... While I am still enthusiastic about all of those said items. I am realizing how much I will miss my previous lifestyle. I am really beginning to see how lucky I was with the friends that I made. And while I know they will be my friends always, it's cause for a moment to just sit back and remember.

a sudden burst of skill

So I attended a ku med intramural softball game the
other day, which coincidentally abbey was playing in, and aside from the man-eating gnats making dinner of me, I had a pretty fantastic time. Abbey used to play softball with me on my team in manhattan; however, the scene was much different there. I recall Abbey [i will cut her some slack, i do believe it was her firt jaunt with the sport] nonetheless, I remember her more often then not, completely missing the ball. If she did make contact, she would hit roughly 07% of the ball and it would creep across the ground to the pitcher like a wounded animal preparing for death. But wait, what is this i see, full swings, no running starts at the ball, a step forward and a cut that would make any northern woods lunberjack proud. She figured it out! All of a sudden she has turned into one of the best female softball players I have ever seen. It's like one day she showed up at the field and just decided to be good. My hat is off to you dear Abbey.

so here are some more pics of my work space at ellerbebecket. Sorry the pics are so small but I wanted to put a lot up without taking up ton of space on the screen. anyway, let me know what you think. we are moving soon to a new office in a new building, but for the time being we are moving down a couple of floors in the building that we are currently occupying. I hope we end up somewhere downtown either in the crossroads district, river market, or the downtown loop. I dig it down there...Alright, back to work.

my work space at ellerbe after one month and one week of use.

inspired

so i have recently been inspired by the author of studio 109 to take the time to make this blog a little more personal. i have spent the better half of an entire evening on this machine trying this, and trying that only to end up with a blog which i don't enjoy looking at. it has been taking me kind of a long time to get into the workings of the blog for this is my first encounter with html language. i think i am getting the hang of basics though so look for something a little more pleasing in the future.

i am going to make a genuine attempt to blog more than i have been lately, but i am too damn tired to look at this computer screen anymore tonight.

until later, in the words of my good freind j.c. stoner....

"I'll see yas when I see yas"

I'm making a comeback tour.

So I have totally fallen off of the face of the earth since starting me new job at Ellerbe. I haven't posted anything since, I believe my first day of work. Speaking of work, all is well. I am finally starting to feel really comfortable here after one month. My roles are beginning to take shape and become apparent to me. One thing I can't seem to get used to however, it getting up at 645am. That really sucks. I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation and will do anything in my power to stay in bed for just one more minute.

I am definately not seeing enough of my girly. She is even busier than I am. Abbey has only been at KU med for about 3 weeks and has already had about 4 tests and 10 quizes. [she finally knows the struggles of school taking up more personal time than it ever should...something she used to harp on my all the time for when I was in Architecture school]

A friend of mine, Jason Bervert, has a wedding rapidly approaching and that mean that a bachalor party is on the way. YESSS!! [oh how I love bachalor parties] So this weekend we are kicken the day off with some bbq and beer and then the night will just go down hill from there [i am reluctant to further endulge you on the specifics of said evening for fear that some church going folks or children under 18 may wonder onto this blog.] As you can imagine, it will be a good time.

That is all I have time for now, I promise I will get some new pics up soon. until then

pace [that is peace in Italian]

my work space at ellerbe

first day of work

so, i just finished my first day of the "real world" here at ellerbe becket. it seems like a cool joint. the office is pretty chill and wide open. I have a feeling I am going to be doing a lot of 3d type things which is ok, that seems to play a huge roll in their design process, hopefully meaning i may have the opportunity to offer my hand in some design decisions. however, as you know 3d max has the inate ability to be the prime source of all my frustration. ( maybe that was just knox induced)...we will find out.

I will have pics of the office and my space up soon. until tomorrow....peace.

i will say one thing...i can't wait until i am out of this immature, self-centered, politically currupt college we call capd.

So this is a project some of my of my buddies have been working on for past few weeks, and finished this evening. The project was to design and build a viewing box to be places in downtown Kansas City. The approach taken in this case however, was to capture sound. The "coffin" is to be placed on unused train tracks in the crossroads district. A user ( sorry wendy) then sits in the box, closing the door, being directly connected to the auditory life of KC. Acoustically the coffin is ment to capture sound and let it reverberate with in the space. Overall I think this project is pretty nice. it definately took a more tectonic roll and didn't just take the project at face value, like many of the other projects.

53 hours and 20 minutes left of architecture school...WOW what a ride.

anything to get me away from max

so yesterday i began my maiden voyage with
sony's vegas film editing software. my task, to create
a moving logo for our film which we have been working
on all year long. the film is set to premiere friday the
6th of may at 8pm here in seaton hall. the logo venture
went fairly well, things are still real rough and need
a lot of refinement; however, look pretty decent.
the above image is a still frame when the name of
our team is revealed. the people below are us, the
manifest studio.

a little ani for ya


people used to make records as in a record of an event
the event of people playing music in a room
now everything is cross-marketing its about sunglasses and shoes or guns
and drugs you choose
we got it rehashed we got it half-assed
we're digging up all the graves and we're spitting on the past
and you can choose between the colors of the lipstick on the whores

-ani difranco

Now that is a big head!

And so another day begins.



If any of you know what this is, than you understand my angst when seeing this image. I have started every day of my final semester in architecture school gazing into the emptyness of this window on my computer screen. "five more days" that is what I have to keep telling myself.

sony center in Berlin Germany [i am in the middle on the left]


This photo was taken while traveling through Europe, after living and studying in Italy for 5 months. These 3 other cats and myself traveled to Switzerland, Germany, and France together after our studies had subsided. I will never in my life forget those travels and the time spent abroad. Architecture, art, friends, and Abbey even came and met me in London for spring break. It was beautiful.

deep thought @ cafe ignorante